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Go Web Development Cookbook

You're reading from Go Web Development Cookbook Build full-stack web applications with Go

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787286740

Length 338 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

Angular

Concepts

Web Programming

Author (1):

Arpit Aggarwal

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. Creating Your First Server in Go FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Templates, Static Files, and HTML Forms

3. Working with Sessions, Error Handling, and Caching in Go

4. Writing and Consuming RESTful Web Services in Go

5. Working with SQL and NoSQL Databases

6. Writing Microservices in Go Using Micro – a Microservice Toolkit

7. Working with WebSocket in Go

8. Working with the Go Web Application Framework – Beego

9. Working with Go and Docker

10. Securing a Go Web Application

11. Deploying a Go Web App and Docker Containers to AWS

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Debugging your first local WebSocket server

Debugging a web application is one of the most important skills for a developer to learn, as it helps in identifying a problem, isolating the source of the problem, and then either correcting the problem or determining a way to work around it. In this recipe, we will learn how to debug a WebSocket server running locally using GoLand IDE.

Getting ready…

This recipe assumes you have GoLand IDE installed and configured to run the Go Application on your machine.

How to do it…

Click Open Project in the GoLand IDE to open websocket-server.go, which we wrote in our previous recipe, as shown in the following screenshot:

Once the project opens, click onEdit Configurationsasshownin the following screenshot:

Select Add New Configuration by clicking the + sign as shown in the following screenshot:

Select Go Build, rename theconfigurationto WebSocket Local Debug, changeRun kindtoDirectory, and click onApplyandOK as shown in the following screenshot:

Place a few breakpoints...

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Authors (1)

Arpit Aggarwal

Arpit Aggarwal

Arpit Aggarwal is a programmer with over 7 years of industry experience in software analysis, design, effort estimation, development, troubleshooting, testing, and supporting web applications. He is among the top contributors of StackOverflow with more than 9,000 reputation and more than 100 badges in multiple areas such as Java, Scala, Go, Spring, Spring-MVC, GiT, Angular, Unit Testing, Web Services, and Docker, and has written many technical articles for Java Code Geeks, System Code Geeks, Web Code Geeks, and DZone.

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